At the time, ExxonMobil had 80,000 employees, did business in nearly 200 countries, and had an annual revenue of nearly $400 billion. On January 1, 2006, Tillerson was elected chairman and CEO, following the retirement of Lee Raymond. His major competitor was Ed Galante, another Exxon executive. Upon this appointment Tillerson's replacement of Lee Raymond as CEO of Exxon Mobil was implied. In 2004, he became president and director of ExxonMobil. In 1999, with the merger of Exxon and Mobil, he was named executive vice president of ExxonMobil Development Company. He then entered Exxon into the Sakhalin-I consortium with Rosneft. In 1998, he became a vice president of Exxon Ventures (CIS) and president of Exxon Neftegas Limited with responsibility for Exxon's holdings in Russia and the Caspian Sea.
and Esso Exploration and Production Khorat Inc. In 1995, he became president of Exxon Yemen Inc. In 1989, Tillerson became general manager of the central production division of Exxon USA. Tillerson joined Exxon Company USA in 1975 as a production engineer. Vice President Dick Cheney and Tillerson, 2007 During his time at UT Austin, he was involved with the Tejas Club (an all-male secret society) and the marching band. He received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975. Tillerson received a college scholarship from the University of Texas Longhorn Band. He was leader for the percussion section of his high school band, in which he played the kettle drums and snare drum, and he earned spots in the all-district and all-region bands during his senior year. Tillerson graduated from Huntsville High School in 1970. Two years later, in 1968, he became a janitor working in one of the engineering buildings at the university. Īt age 14, he began to work as a busboy in the student union building at Oklahoma State University. Tillerson himself has been active in the Boy Scouts for most of his life, and in his youth he earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Tillerson's father was an executive of the Boy Scouts of America organization, and this led to his family's move to Huntsville. He has two sisters, Rae Ann Hamilton, a physician who resides in Abilene, Texas, and Jo Lynn Peters, a high school educator. He was raised in Vernon, Texas Stillwater, Oklahoma and Huntsville, Texas. Tillerson was born on March 23, 1952, in Wichita Falls, Texas, the son of Patty Sue (née Patton) and Bobby Joe Tillerson, and named after Rex Allen and John Wayne, two Hollywood actors famous for playing cowboys. Tillerson was replaced by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Mike Pompeo. Bush and Edmund Muskie under President Carter. After their relationship deteriorated, Trump dismissed Tillerson in March 2018, making his tenure one of the shortest in recent history but not as short as Lawrence Eagleburger under President George H. During Tillerson's tenure, new applications to work for the Foreign Service fell by 50 percent, and four of the six career ambassadors as well as 14 of the 33 career ministers, equivalent to military four- and three-star generals, departed. An unconventional choice for the role, Tillerson's tenure was characterized by a lack of visibility in comparison to his predecessors in the traditionally high-profile position of Secretary of State. Tillerson became Secretary of State on February 1, 2017.
He has previously been the director of the joint United States-Russia oil company Exxon Neftegas. In 2014, Tillerson, who had made business deals on behalf of ExxonMobil with Russia, opposed the sanctions against Russia. He is a longtime contributor to Republican campaigns, but did not donate to Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
From 2010 to 2012, he was the national president of the Boy Scouts, its highest non-executive position. Tillerson is a longtime volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America and earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Tillerson retired from ExxonMobil effective January 1, 2017. In 2006 Tillerson was elected chair and chief executive of ExxonMobil, the world's sixth-largest company by revenue. In 1995 he became president of Exxon Yemen Inc. By 1989 he had become general manager of the Exxon USA central production division. Tillerson began his career as a civil engineer with Exxon in 1975 after graduating with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the Trump administration, Tillerson was chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of ExxonMobil, holding that position from 2006 until 2017. secretary of state from February 1, 2017, to March 31, 2018, under President Donald Trump. Rex Wayne Tillerson (born March 23, 1952) is an American engineer and energy executive who served as the 69th U.S.
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